A top secret study done by both US and USSR MIC's in the 1970s, determined that women are the preferred pilots for aircraft. Women have a smaller range of sizes, allowing more uniformity in crew station design. This makes things cheaper and you can jam in more gear when you dont have to accommodate for your top pilots ranging from 5'0" to 6'5"

Now a days drone pilots hang out in doublewide trailers, with both male and female bathrooms.

So yup. women will be drafted this time.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27711841

I don't have a link, so don't beat me up over it. Yes, eventually, women will be drafted. It's been talked about and studied by the military for years. I know this because I was an active duty wife for 30 years and a mother of a daughter, so I listened. It will happen.

But really, how many people do you think need to be drafted to go fight in Israel?

It's a small slice of the MIddle East, couldn't we just nuke the whole area and be done with them all?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22441207

You are forgetting that nuclear pakistan would most likely get involved, and if that happened their neighbor India would get involved....possibly dragging China into a war (although if China is smart, they would wait the whole thing out). Russia on the other hand, probably would get involved one way or another.

Of course most of Africa is now islamized, and well, I guess that continent is in a state of perpetual war, but they still would be angrier than normal.

Point is, one small spark in a dry climate can ignite the world.

If you can justify killing one man, you can justify killing every man.

The Greatest Lie is the one never told, but assumed.

History isn't a measure of our successes, but the compilation of our mistakes.

Unlike amateur people here I actually am on a draft board. There are no plans to produce a draft up to 40. Even in conditions of war, they want 19 to 23 year olds. The person who mentioned something about education and STEM is a bull-bleeper. NO education situation will allow you to avoid participation unless you are studying to be a Pastor,Priest or Rabbi, with credentials that you are already active in a significant congregation. Please, let's get facts here. By the way, there are NO plans to re-instate the draft. (and no budget for any draft system to operate right now)The government could move quickly but it takes an average of 6 months to train a soldier.

There has been standing legislation to re-instate the draft since conscription was halted.

I'm ready to serve my country in whatever capacity is needed. I have have mixed feelings about conscription but I generally support the idea. I have an advanced degree in physics, so I will be able to choose my mission, but if there is a major war and its necessary I will be joining right up. I will probably do what my grandfather did, in that he got a degree in physics and then went straight into the navy in '36 because he knew shit was going down and he knew the navy needed people like that. I feel this way now, I don't agree with the military or everything our country does, but I have a sneaking suspicion they're going to need all the help they can get.

Unlike amateur people here I actually am on a draft board. There are no plans to produce a draft up to 40. Even in conditions of war, they want 19 to 23 year olds. The person who mentioned something about education and STEM is a bull-bleeper. NO education situation will allow you to avoid participation unless you are studying to be a Pastor,Priest or Rabbi, with credentials that you are already active in a significant congregation. Please, let's get facts here. By the way, there are NO plans to re-instate the draft. (and no budget for any draft system to operate right now)The government could move quickly but it takes an average of 6 months to train a soldier.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27771534

Scientists holding a doctorate degree in a NSF desiginated STEM field are exempt from conscription.

I had dinner tonight in New York with an old Davos hand just back from Switzerland with the inside word from the powers-that-be.

The bad news is the high expectation of an exogenous event that could throw economic recovery, an advancing stock market, and a mending Europe to the winds– and usher in a period of fear and uncertainty punctuated by oil spiking to God knows what price, to shortages of energy, to profit margins squeezed in industries that require petroleum additives, not to speak of events that could trigger catastrophe in the Middle East.

There has been standing legislation to re-instate the draft since conscription was halted.

I'm ready to serve my country in whatever capacity is needed. I have have mixed feelings about conscription but I generally support the idea. I have an advanced degree in physics, so I will be able to choose my mission, but if there is a major war and its necessary I will be joining right up. I will probably do what my grandfather did, in that he got a degree in physics and then went straight into the navy in '36 because he knew shit was going down and he knew the navy needed people like that. I feel this way now, I don't agree with the military or everything our country does, but I have a sneaking suspicion they're going to need all the help they can get.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23524705

Hmmm just keep telling your self this what inpatient facility is letting you have internet time?

19 year old GLP'r here. I am aware my age group would be the first ones to get drafted and I have to say fuck them. Unless we are legitimately getting invaded in this "coming war", I'm going to tell them to fuck off. We've been at war for more than half of my life. Its about damn time that we end them.